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The Western Australia state government has announced a plan to spend $66.3 million on solar and battery storage installations for schools, isolated communities and social housing as part of a massive $5.5 billion plan to re-boot the state’s…

This week, Opus One Solutions, provider of DERMS software, announced an agreement to deploy its GridOS Transactive Energy Management System (TEMS) for a demonstration at Southern California Edison (SCE). Opus One said this is the…

Clean Power Published on July 26th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider July 26th, 2020 by Johnna Crider Every day, the workhorses of cleantech continue to pull us forward at a fast pace, but there is also occasionally a new spin on some…

Atlassian Co-Founder, Scott Farquhar, says the company’s new headquarters in Sydney’s planned tech precinct will host thousands of workers and embody “the best new ideas”, including a solar-energy-generating facade — inspiration for a…

The key role that Australia’s millions of rooftop solar systems stand to play in the running of the national grid, when paired with battery storage and pooled together into carefully orchestrated virtual power plants, has been further…

Vermont-based Norwich Technologies announced last week that it has been awarded a $1.1M U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant to develop a low-cost hybrid solar power system that can deliver renewable energy 24 hours a day with the use of…

A new initiative convened by not-for-profit organisations ClimateWorks Australia and Climate-KIC Australia, supported by a $300,000 grant from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, is gathering the collective nous and resources of…

One of the newest contenders in Australia’s residential battery storage market, Soluna Au, has made its first sales of domestic single and three-phase systems to homes in Perth, Western Australia. Soluna – a 50/50 joint venture between…

Batteries Published on July 26th, 2020 | by Maarten Vinkhuyzen July 26th, 2020 by Maarten Vinkhuyzen On the Tesla earnings call last Wednesday, July 22, Elon mentioned the renewable energy stack for the home. Tesla was…

You might think public hospitals have a duty of care to protect the community and reduce emissions by applying a warm blanket of solar PV to their many hectares of rooftop space. The NSW Government is fulfilling that prescription. July 27,…